Zülküf Karatekin

Zülküf Karatekin (born 1965, Kırkpınar, Diyarbakır ) is a Turkish engineer and politician of Kurdish descent. He was a member of the political parties Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP), the Democratic Society Party (DTP). He was elected the Mayor of Kayapinar and imprisoned during his second term in 2009.

Education He completed his primary school in Kırkpınar village and high school in Diyarbakır. The pool was located in the Medya park, which was inaugurated in June 2007.

Karatekin was arrested in December 2009 due to suspected links to the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK). During his detention he claimed that all of Diyarbakir was part of the KCK and that they wouldn't be able to change this by detaining him. He was tried together with other politicians of his party in the so-called KCK-trials and released in July 2014. Following his release was active in the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Later he decided to leave Turkey in 2020 and go to exile into Austria. He arrived in Fieberbrunn in Tyrol, where he applied for asylum.